Chevron

Together with Exxon and ConocoPhillips, Chevron is one of America’s three oil supermajors. The company is a major player in African oil and gas, principally in Nigeria and Angola.

Nigeria
Oxy Makes its Way Back

Occidental Petroleum, which pulled out of Nigeria in the 1970s, is seeking to buy into Exxon’s OPL 214.

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Nigeria
Amnesty Slams Oil Groups

Increasingly active on matters pertaining to oil extraction (see P. 1, AEI 400), Amnesty International has just issued a new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.11.2005

Nigeria
BG Group in Offshore Deal

A partner in the OK LNG program, BG Group has just acquired its first license in Nigeria.

Subscribers only Energy 25.10.2005

Nigeria
Negris Builds its Plant

Several Nigerian companies have taken advantage of deregulation in the electricity sector to promote projects for private power plants. The latest comes from Negris, which has launched an IPP scheme in the Ikorodu industrial zone in Lagos state.

Subscribers only Energy 25.10.2005

Alternative Funding

ExxonMobil is about to call on commercial banks to put up $600 million to finance development of Ehra's satellite fields. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.10.2005

United Kingdom
Newcomer on Oil Team

The London-based Standard Chartered Bank last month hired Rob Tims, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.10.2005

Angola
Fight for LNG Terminal

Chevron has unveiled plans to build an LNG terminal in the same port in Mississippi which Sonangol has chosen to construct its first liquefaction plant in the U.S.

Subscribers only Energy 11.10.2005

Libya, United States
Conoco Philips

Conoco Philips and other U.S. oil companies Marathon, Amerada Hess, [...]

Subscribers only 06.10.2005

Angola
Offering Marginal Fields

Angola is scheduled before the end of the year to issue a call for bids for relinquished acreage on blocks in its shallow offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 27.09.2005

Nigeria
Sasol on OPL 249

In presenting his company’s annual financial results last week, the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.09.2005

Spotlight | Africa
Leading NGOs Target Oil Companies

The world's leading non-governmental organizations are all busy opening departments specifically devoted to the oil industry. The majors, which have up to now had to contend only with specialized groups like Global Witness or campaigns targeting a single country (RoyalDutch/Shell [.